*laughs in archivist* anyone who thinks it's all been digitized is out of their goddamn mind. We don't have the staff, resources, or digital infrastructure to digitize, store, check, and maintain at preservations standards a digital copy of every single item in our collections.

please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it

Getting your ass kicked is trending

Reminder on this day of Advent: If your Christianity isn't oriented around bringing down the powerful, liberating the oppressed, feeding the poor, and sending the rich away empty, the Theotokos says you are doing it wrong. #Advent #Magnificat

and just like that, I’ve improved my life

@josie.zone the Josie signal sounding

Ah, the world! Oh, the world!

the way people talk about AI is like it's a stalker you ought to be nicer to

www.mixcloud.com/richaftersab... “The Day After the Sabbath” is one of the best things going and this episode is a real treat — long-form proto-doom/heavy blues. Highest rec

Bluesky has the juice

did I already mention this band Fleshwater I ran across on a playlist while I was hanging around a hotel room resting up? this band is terrific. Wait yes I know I did bcz somebody wrongly said their name was bad. That person is still wrong and this band still shreds

got 'em

omg

co-sign, SubRosa kicked ass

the second angle at the chin shot is gravy. gravy!!!

"Tate's endurance was awful" perhaps the least surprising news of the day

As winter solstice approaches, resharing a small poem of longing from a poet of the Chinese diaspora who spent the latter half of his life in Taiwan. He died there in December seven years ago, in 2017. Yu Guangzhong, "Nostalgia" - in his handwriting, alongside my translation #everynightapoem #余光中

lol pwnt

so mad that Text Chat turns out to be a feature Epic is offering and not, you know, some very strange game called Text Chat

the thing is they're saying "I dare you to do something about it" to, basically, Democrats in the House and Senate, because that's the only people in a position to do anything, and, well,

I need everybody to stop posting just the right though. the left hook that sets it up is beautiful, and that's why Joshua smiles. he has set the table and then he eats

in this moment of universal pleasure over the shellacking of Jake Paul I’m finally agreeing to run for office. My platform: 1. return boxing to network tv & basic cable 2. promote lower weight divisions. return to the glory Pipino Cuevas & Danny Lopez days 3. public money for boxing journalism

billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull interviewer: incredible

There’s going to be a fire in the DOJ, isn’t there?

still mad that the sequels, comic vengeance and blasé vengeance, never went into production

Bluesky isn't a place where trolls come to get mocked and insulted. They love that. Bluesky is a place where trolls come to be blocked and isolated and ignored — which they hate. If you're seeing a lot of shitty people in your feed, you aren't blocking enough people.

Erik Friedlander & Gerry Hemingway - at Iridium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tODaZMSQfAI

no but I don’t want wrong answers only. that won’t help

I know it won’t matter because democrats are useless and even if they take back power they’ll just have some limpdick reconciliation message, but this is literally going to kill people and RFK Jr should spend the remainder of his life in a cell in a just world, just as Musk should.

so Twizzlers somehow absorbed Nibs, which were a qualitatively different red licorice candy, that's fine this stuff happens, I like both, but if you are a fellow candy fiend be advised that the seasonal Twizzlers trees, in the shape of a Christmas tree, are Nibs flavor not Twizzler

Donkey Kong XII: Contemplation of the Divine Self

I think I kept this to myself last year (could be wrong!) because I don’t like to post about work in progress* but when I was sourcing an Elfriede Jelinek quote in copyedit AI said this *I also recommend keeping work in progress private as a general strategy, but that’s a different topic

I don't suppose fellow I-still-have-a-Rosary types will need to be told how happy I am to be reviewed in America Magazine

Also found at the Thrift Store, in the CD section, whatever this is. My curiosity was worth the $1.99 to rescue this, if even the Richie Ashburn thing *alone* proves to be on here. I will let you know.

Haymarket Gift Cards are the perfect last minute gift for any curious reader, social justice activist, or labor movement militant.

anyone can release a book of poetry, they can't stop you, poets have no regulating body

The chances that the people a lot of folks won’t make eye contact with at the offramp have a stronger moral compass than the people in power are even money or better

been saying a triazaacenaphthylene inhibitor was the ticket for a minute

I resent it when people say stuff like this about me and yet: Damon’s writing has a little extra zip when he seems angry. Great piece.

fucking NO.

Took this on a misty day at North Berwick. Ghost Story For Christmas vibez

When the NEA asked us to promise not to publish trans, nonbinary, or gender fluid authors, we told them to kick rocks. (Actually, formally, with a unanimous vote by the Board of Directors, we told them to kick rocks.) So the NEA rescinded our funding.

BREAKING: The new Rotten Sound EP 'Mass Extinction' sounds like Rotten Sound. www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/12/18/b...

I don't know what to say about this garbage vote to criminalize gender affirming care btw. Been trying to find the words. I hear so many friends in sadness and fear today but of what use is "I hear you"? Not much I fear. To live through this moment sucks ass (negative). We must find a way through

how long til Vance & the Adult Convert Brigade start calling him an "activist pope" and counseling that he stay in his lane: dispensing teachings which they also reject, like the super actual Catholics they are

check this shit out. gonna write a song contrasting your guy macheath with a shark. that’s right a fuckin shark. whole compare and contrast deal. ppl gonna be singing this shit for a hundred years. see if I lie —Bertolt Brecht, to Kurt Weill, over drinks, 1927

however much you hate these motherfuckers you do no hate them enough. (not josh, he's alright.)

update I got curious about "like possums" and it's like half a song and I really rather like it but I'm never gonna do anything with it so here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rl71w...

found this, thought some of you might find it interesting: it's a photograph of a page from the Goths notebook (I usually have one main notebook in which I work through an album as I write, though as it goes on usually it'll expand to the backs of envelopes, stray pages, etc)

An extraordinary book about Algeria, France, “citizenship,” and faithfulness. May Fernand Iveton’s name never be forgotten. @versobooks.bsky.social www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/12...